Air Monitoring

STA Training

Dec 03 2020

Author: Andy Curtis, STA Administrator on behalf of Source Testing Association

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Over the past 20 years, the STA has developed and provided training and revision courses to the industry, the training courses have run at the STA’s head offices in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Not only have delegates attended from all over the UK, the STA training courses also attract attendees worldwide, from Ireland, mainland Europe, Hong Kong, South Africa and the Middle East. The training courses have been developed, updated and delivered by leading experts in the Environmental industry.


2020 has, of course, introduced new challenges for businesses from every sector. 2020 has certainly been the year to adapt and modify traditional working practices, with this in mind the STA investigated hosting their training courses online. Starting with the Risk Assessment course in August 2020, it became clear that there was a demand for online courses. Following on from that the STA has held dozens of online training courses up to the date of this publication and have planned numerous online courses right through to the end of 2021. The training course are carried out live over Microsoft Teams allowing participants and trainers to interact as though they were in the same room. The syllabuses of the STA training courses can be found below.


If you are interested in any courses please visit http://www.s-t-a.org/ or contact the STA.


Training Course syllabus
The STA is committed to encourage the personal and professional development of practicing source testers and students and provide training courses on various aspects of emission monitoring.

Risk Assessment - Industrial Emission Monitoring
The course covers all aspects of the “Yellow BOOK” and includes case studies of recent H&S incidents, the use of Risk Assessment, COSHH, safe lifting, Weather Conditions, Electricity and PPE use.

Course Content
The course is presented in six modules;
• The basics of the risk assessment
• General site hazards
• Physical hazards
• Chemical hazards on site
• Chemical hazards in the laboratory
• Weather, Environment and Welfare
 

Regulatory Monitoring Requirements for Process Operators
The purpose of the course is to provide an understanding of the Environment Agency’s MCERTS schemes as part of the requirement of the EA Operator Monitoring Assessment. This will increase process operators’ awareness of their role in managing emissions monitoring and so improve their OMA audit score.
Course Content
• Background to Environmental Regulations including IPPC.
• Description of the OMA scheme.
• The role of MCERTS schemes in stack-emission monitoring.
• Introduction to major pollutants
• The nature of emission limits, including reference conditions and units of measurement.
• An understanding of the principles of stack-emission monitoring.
• An appreciation of the importance of correct sampling location for stack emission monitoring
• The practicalities of planning and executing stack-emissions monitoring campaigns including the importance of Risk Assessments.
• Quality checks to ensure robust monitoring data
 

On Site Auditing
A requirement of the OMA scheme is for process operators to carry out periodic auditing of stack-emission monitoring. On-site auditing refers specifically to checking that the personnel carrying out monitoring do so in accordance with the agreed site-specific protocol (SSP) and documented procedures. The aim of this one day training course is to provide a basic understanding of stack-emission monitoring to enable process operators, regulators and environmental consultants to audit stack sampling contractors.
Course Content
• Ethical requirements for independence and environmental awareness
• Use of MCERTS certified personnel
• Selection of appropriate methods following international standards
• Method Implementation Documents
• Estimation of measurement uncertainty
• Use of appropriate equipment
• Description of standard reference methods
• Planning of a sampling measurement campaign: site review;         risk assessment; site-specific protocol
• Reporting of results
• Participation in proficiency-testing schemes.
 

BS EN14181 quality assurance of an AMS
BS EN 14181—Stationary source emissions - Quality assurance of automated measuring systems (AMS) (CEM systems) is one of the most significant and demanding standards to be developed by CEN and it has far reaching consequences for Regulators, Equipment Manufactures, Test Houses and most importantly - Process Operators.
In the implementation of the standard the Agency has developed a Method Implementation Document (MID) and a Technical Guidance Note. The purpose of the training is to provide guidance in the application of the various parts of the standard.
There are practical examples of how to handle the data and establish the calibration function
Course Content
• Background - Directives, legislation and implementation
• QAL1 and MCERTS - Definition and understanding
• QAL2 and SRMs - Definition and scope of the Standard
    Reference Methods (SRM). Importance of quality measurements.
• Roles and responsibility - As required by QAL2 and the annual surveillance tests (AST)
• QAL3 - How this is carried out and the audit requirements.
• Practical examples - Using example data to establish a calibration function
• Meeting the reporting requirements of BS EN14181
 

Medium Combustion Plant Directive and Specified Generator Regulations
The European Union’s Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) entered into force in December 2015 and this was transposed into national legislation by 20 December 2017. The MCPD applies to existing individual Medium Combustion Plants (MCPs) in the net thermal input range 1 to <50 MWth and new aggregated plants above 1 MWth (provided that these do not qualify as a Large Combustion Plant under the Industrial Emissions Directive).
Most stationary combustion plants are in the scope of the MCPD and will be required to register and report emissions to the Environment Agency, types of plants under the MCPD but not limited to include boilers, engines and turbines,
Course Content
• What is the MCPD? Frequency of monitoring
• How to register your plant
• MCERTS overview and what is required
• Monitoring approach
• Sampling locations
• Principles of gas sampling
• Principles of particulate monitoring
• Emission monitoring equipment overview
• SO2 Emissions reporting based on sulphur content of fuels
• Expressing uncertainty of measurement
 

Foundation Course - Introduction to MCERTS Level 1
This course is designed to provide an introduction in Emission Monitoring and to provide a foundation to the delegate on the requirements MCERTS Standard Level 1
Who should attend
This course is for personnel with little or no experience in emission monitoring or who are at the Trainee level of MCERTS and wish to progress to Level 1.
Course Content
• Introduction to major pollutants
• Basic equipment operation
• Principles of extractive monitoring
• Manual sampling techniques
• Continuous Emission Monitoring
• Units and reference conditions
• Introduction to legislation, regulations and standards
• Environment Agency MCERTS scheme
• Quality management in stack-emissions monitoring
 

MCERTS Level 2 – Team Leader
This course is designed to provide training to assist the progression from MCERTS Level 1 to Level 2.
Who should attend
This course is for personnel who are at level 1 and are training to become a level 2 team leader.
Course Content
• Responsibilities of a Level 2
• Health and safety review
• Virtual site visit
• Site specific protocol
• Risk assessment
• Report preparation
• Measurement uncertainty
• Selection of methods and equipment
• Pollution abatement techniques
• Types of industrial process
 

MCERTS Personnel competency
• TE1 – particulate monitoring
The STA has developed a series of revision training courses based on the syllabuses for the MCERTS personnel competency standard.
The revision courses are designed to highlight the depth of knowledge the candidates are required to know to enter for the examinations.
Course Contents:
• Standards review
• TE1.1 Sample train components
• TE1.2 Sample location
• TE1.3 Preliminary work and quality control
• TE1.4 Calculating stack gas volumetric flow rates
• TE1.5 Calculating flow rates in a sample train
• TE1.6 Units and reference conditions
 

TE2 – Trace element (dioxins, metals etc) measurement
The STA has developed a series of revision training courses based on the syllabuses for the MCERTS personnel competency standard.
The revision courses are designed to highlight the depth of knowledge the candidates are required to know to enter for the examinations.
Course Contents:
• An introduction to trace species
• Sampling equipment for trace species
• Sample recovery and analysis
• Calculations
 

TE3 – Gaseous measurement by manual extractive measurement
The revision courses are designed to highlight the depth of knowledge the candidates are required to know to enter for
the examinations.
Course Contents:
• Introductions
• Representative sampling
• Batch sampling
• Water vapour
• Hydrogen chloride
• Hydrogen fluoride
• Halogens and halides (excluding HCl and HF)
• Sulphur dioxide, sulphur trioxide and total sulphur
• Ammonia
• Other wet chemistry methods
• Speciated VOCs
• Other tube/filter methods
• Calculations
 

TE4 – Gaseous measurement
by instrumental analysers
The revision courses are designed to highlight the depth of knowledge the candidates are required to know to enter for the examinations.
Course Content:
• Introductions
• Sampling gases using instrumental techniques
• Optical instrumental techniques
• Non-optical instrumental techniques
• Calibration and maintenance
• Calculations
For details of all STA training visit: http://www.s-t-a.org/

 

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